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    Everyone Loves The Chat Box: How Climate Science Moved Online

    Scientists from around the world are writing the next major United Nations climate report. Summarizing the state of the atmosphere without meeting in person is as hard as it sounds.
    by Rebecca Hersher Aug 03, 2020 5 minutes
    The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change met in Incheon, South Korea in October 2018. The pandemic has forced scientists around the world to write the latest U.N. climate report without meeting in person.

    In mid-April, hundreds of scientists from around the world were supposed to fly to Ecuador for a five-day meeting about the latest research on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

    It was an important event. The scientists are writing part of a crucial global climate science report scheduled for release next year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the part of the United Nations that assesses global climate science. National governments rely on the multi-chapter report to anchor international climate negotiations and to set greenhouse gas emissions targets.

    But the pandemic forced the IPCC to hold April's in-person meeting online. Smaller scientific gatherings scheduled for the spring and summer also met remotely.

    It was an inadvertent test of a question that has loomed over

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